Today, some Saturday Market vendors weigh in, as the market feels unfairly ensnared in the controversy. And the whole story has raised questions about entrepreneurship, parenting and just who might be the ones being manipulated.

Check out some of these comments, and feel free to add your own to the discussion. What more do you want to know?

I perceive a very cynical father who wants to parlay this tempest-in-a-teapot "controversy" into his 15 minutes of fame, and a ice paid vacation making the rounds of interviews on the local and national talking blockhead circuit.

I have a simple question for all those conservatives who are proud of his girl for working for what she wants. Isn't finding out and following the rules part of the "work" that she should have done? The sad reality is that conservatives are not celebrating this girl for "working hard". There are many millions of people across America that work hard, and receive no such support from conservatives. No...the reality is that they are celebrating her for taking the shortcut of not following the rules. Given the fact that their family runs a media firm and the speed at which this made the rounds...it sounds to me like this is all a carefully planned and manufactured controversy.

Madison - if you are selling goods or services in the City of Portland, you need a business license. Please obtain one. It is available online and easy to do. Then know that if those mistletoe orders are filled, you are definitely going to need to file an individual income tax return for this year. My guess is someone has established you as a sole proprietor or a company. Seeing that your older brother is a vice-president of your father's business makes me think your family will help you with that.

What's wrong with teaching children the value of a dollar and a little work? I worked from the age of 7 ie, paper route, mowing lawns, milking cows, bailing hay, pull suckers and weeds in the bean and corn fields of Iowa. It didn't hurt me. It taught me the value of a dollar earned and saved is what makes the world go round not honoring perversity.

I have 5 grown children and they all know the value of hard work. That being said, when they were young children, none of them had to pay for their own medical care. I kind of considered that to be my expense, as their father.

I have to say, the comments that attack Madison Root for her ambition and dogged persistence in the face of obstacles make one wonder what personal tender spot her actions touched within them. She's a right winger? At 11? Madison Root has talked about starting a web series that interviews successful people like brain surgeons, Oprah Winfrey and President Barack Obama. Does that sound like a right winger, even at age 11? One thing is fairly obvious. Her critics probably won't be getting any calls from Madison Root for her interviews of brain surgeons.

Ashton Root talks about daughter Madison Root and the mistletoe flapMadison Root, an 11-year-old 6th grader from Lake Oswego, wanted to help pay for her braces but ran afoul of city ordinances when she tried to sell the mistletoe she picked at her uncle's farm at Portland Saturday Market last weekend. With the help of her sales and a $1,000 donation, Madison got the top row of her braces Monday. Now the story has gone worldwide on conservative talk shows and the orders are piling up. Her father, Ashton Root talks about the massive influx of orders they are going to fill.